Cardinal number Sentence Examples

Two classes between which a one-one relation exists have the same cardinal number and are called cardinally similar; and the cardinal number of the class a is a certain class whose members are themselves classes - namely, it is the class composed of all those classes for which a one-one correlation with a exists.

Thus the cardinal number of a is itself a class, and furthermore a is a member of it.

Thus the cardinal number one is the class of unit classes, the cardinal number two is the class of doublets, and so on.

The cardinal number zero is the class of classes with no members; but there is only one such class, namely - the null class.

Zero is a cardinal number.

If a is a cardinal number, a+I is a cardinal number.

The relation-number of a relation should be compared with the cardinal number of a class.

Now if n be any finite cardinal number, it can be proved that the class of those serial relations, which have a field whose cardinal number is n, is a relation-number.

The definition of the ordinal number requires some little ingenuity owing to the fact that no serial relation can have a field whose cardinal number is 1; but we must omit here the explanation of the process.

But the definition of the cardinal number of a class applies when the class is not finite, and it can be proved that there are different infinite cardinal numbers, and that there is a least infinite cardinal, now usually denoted by o where to is the Hebrew letter aleph.

If m and n are finite cardinal numbers, the rational number m/n is the relation which any finite cardinal number x bears to any finite cardinal number y when n X x = m X y.

Thus the rational number one, which we will denote by ' r, is not the cardinal number I; for t r is the relation I/I as defined above, and is thus a relation holding between certain pairs of cardinals.

In the above example 2 R is an integral real number, which is distinct from a rational integer, and from a cardinal number.

Indeed, it is only by experience that we can know that any definite process of counting will give the true cardinal number of some class of entities.

Where a number is expressed in terms of various denominations, a cardinal number usually begins with the largest denomination, and an ordinal number with the smallest.